Tanglewood DBT-SFCE-BW-LH Discovery Series Left Hand Super Folk
Tanglewood DBT-SFCE-BW-LH Discovery Series Left Hand Super Folk
The Tanglewood DBT-SFCE-BW-LH Discovery Super Folk Electro Acoustic LH is designed by some of Europe's most celebrated Luthiers, each instrument is a manifestation of some of the finest tone woods available, produced with their factories' meticulous attention to detail. The Tanglewood DBT-SFCE-BW-LH features premium tonewoods that offer a deep, dynamic tone, and an attractive open pore finish.
The left handed Super Folk is crafted from a range of carefully selected tonewoods including: spruce, black walnut, mahogany, rosewood, and maple. This stunning blend of timber delivers versatility, excellent balance, rich warmth, bright sparkle, and a unique earth tone which records very beautifully yet distinctively. The DBT-SFCE-BW-LH Discovery features a smooth, sleek, super folk cutaway body shape that provides a comfortable playing experience and enables players to reach more challenging chords with equal ease. The Super Folk is perfect for folk enthusiasts and finger-style players, also ideal for the gigging guitarist.
In addition to its stunning appearance and superb tone, the Tanglewood LH Discovery offers its acoustic tone amplified through Tanglewood's own on-board preamp and tuner, providing precise tuning and personalised tone control. Tanglewood's Instruments reflect a perfect blend between time-honoured design philosophies and modern manufacturing methodologies, offering quality construction and design at an affordable price.
Spruce Top & Black Walnut Body
The Tanglewood DBT-SFCE-BW-LH features a stunning spruce top that offers a broad dynamic range, versatility, crisp articulation, and accommodates numerous playing techniques with ease. The wood itself is quite elastic in nature, which resonates well whilst remaining strong, and provides a focused, clear sound of deep lows, warm midi-range, and bright singing highs. The spruce top is contrasted beautifully by the black walnut back and sides that produce a unique earthy tone which records in a distinctive manor. Black walnut is less dense than rosewood and mahogany, yet still very resonant, delivering excellent tonal balance, earthy trebles, bright attack. The LH Super Folk is ideal for a flat-picked sound and mellow finger-style playing, perfect for folk enthusiasts.
Mahogany Neck & Rosewood Fingerboard
The mahogany neck is topped with a rosewood fingerboard that offers a warm, bright, sparkly tone that really shines through when playing finger-picking techniques. Rosewood fingerboards also offers a smooth and energetic play. The neck is finished in natural open pore satin for a sleek, smooth, and stunning appearance. The mahogany neck offers durability, strength, and added rich-warmth blended with great playability for the players pleasure. Mahogany is used frequently as timber for guitar necks because it provides durability, and the wood responds greatly to picking styles, strumming, and various finger techniques with equal ease.
Tanglewood's Super Folk Body
The Tanglewood DBT-SFCE-BW-LH Discovery features one of Tanglewood's most iconic body shapes, the Super Folk. Tanglewood began by shaping the guitar to specs of the modern industry for great playability, we now have the well-crafted super folk cutaway. The shape was first introduced over 25 years ago on their award winning TW45 Sundance Pro guitar. The super folk cutaway body has become a must have among folk players because it's a bigger version of traditional folk guitars, offering more volume and tone, in a comfortable shape. The cutaway design enables players to reach more challenging chords with ease. The super folk can handle many genres with equal ease, and will cut through a live mix greatly. The Discovery is especially perfect for those who specialise in the folk genre and finger-picking techniques.
Tanglewood TEQ-3BT On-Board Preamp & Tuner
The Discovery comes equipped with Tanglewood's own on-board preamp and tuning system, offering precise tuning and personalised tonal setup. Featuring: low, mid, high, and volume rotary controls and easy ready screen for tuning purposes. Offering back lit stage tuning, three controllable EQ bands in a compact and sophisticated system. In addition to these great features, Tanglewood are also providing the same active power source as those found on Tanglewood's most premium priced guitars. Perfect for the gigging folk player.
Tanglewood Discovery Aesthetics
The Tanglewood DBT-SFCE-BW-LH features premium tonewoods to offer a superb tone and an attractive natural finish. Its black walnut back and sides not only provide a uniquely stunning sound, it also finishes beautifully, providing the visual impact of koa, offering a treat of an aesthetic. This left handed Discovery is beautifully designed, and boasts simplistic, yet sophisticated ornate details, signature of Tanglewood aesthetics. Featuring a traditional striped sound-hole rosette, complemented by genuine maple binding and its natural light coloured spruce top. The neck is has with white dot fingerboard markers and is finished in natural open pore satin for an elegant appearance and great playability. Tanglewood's signature brand name graces the headstock mightily, accompanied by contrasting chrome hardware and chrome die cast machineheads topped with black buttons.
Features
Solid spruce top offers versatility
Black walnut body provides a stunning appearance and a unique earthy tone
Mahogany neck offers durability and produces rich warmth
Super folk body shape provides a comfortable playing experience and is ideal for folk enthusiasts
Tanglewood on-board preamp and tuner provides amplified sound
Rosewood fingerboard endures a smooth play
Specifications
Body & Bridge
Series: Discovery
Top Material: Spruce
Side Material: Black Walnut
Back Material: Black Walnut
Body Shape: Super Folk
Binding: Genuine Maple
Bridge: Rosewood
Saddle: ABS White
Colour: Natural
Finish: Natural Open Pore Satin
Neck & Fingerboard
Neck Material: Mahogany
Dexterity: Left Handed
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Finish: Natural Open Pore Satin
Number of Frets: 20
Nut: ABS White
Nut Width: 43 mm
Fingerboard Inlays: Plastic White Dot
Scale Length: 650 mm
Hardware & Electronics
Hardware Colour: Chrome
Tuning Machines: Chrome Die Cast
Preamp: Tanglewood TEQ-3BT
Preamp Controls: Volume, Bass, Mid, High, Tuner
Strings: Bronze 12-53
International Buyers Note (Outside the EU)
This product contains wood (rosewood) which will require a CITES export license. There is an additional charge of £74 added to the shipping cost for this item.
Any international order containing one of the restricted materials will have a delayed shipping time (normally 2 to 3 weeks).
The buyer will also need to purchase a CITES import certificate
there is additional information at the following link
https://cites.org/eng/new_CITES_trade_rules_come_into_effect_as_2017_starts_02012017
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